Question to the Ultimate Answer

I make no claims as to the truth of the following. It’s just something I heard.

From around ten years ago, I casually brought up The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy in a conversation with, of all people, a Nintendogame counselor. Oddly enough, he claimed to have spoken to Douglas Adams at one time (unlikely), and that he, being Adams, had actually entrusted this counselor with his original, rejected, idea as to the identity of the Ultimate Question (even less likely). According to this person, the setting of the Ultimate Question was two Englishmen together discussing existential matters, and the question turns out to be something along the lines of: